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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orator Hitler came out on a balcony, could not make himself heard, retired, emerged and again could not outroar his welcome. At the third trial the Modern Caesar was heard to cry: "German compatriots! Seventy-five million people in one nation [huzzahs, shrieks] are stirred to the depths of feeling which you are now demonstrating! [pandemonium]. You will all fulfill your oath! (Ja! Ja! Heil! Sieg Heil!) You will ALL fulfill your oath-all of you, from Königsberg to Hamburg and down to Vienna! You do so in deepest emotion. German compatriots- NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN SHAKE...
...these prophets of evil the French situation-so far as internal matters are concerned-is not so desperate as many would like to think. France is very far from having been 'ruined' by the Left Popular Front. There are only 400,000 unemployed out of forty-odd million inhabitants-a figure which compares very favorably with most other countries in which the free capital system is still maintained...
Died. Lyda Roberti, 28, blonde Polish-born actress; of acute nephritis; in Hollywood. Daughter of a clown, she won success by enthusiastic undulations and a mid-European accent, both on Broadway (You Said It, Roberta) and in films (Million Dollar Legs, The Kid From Spain...
...Europe has the same political face as in 1914, it will probably react to it in the same way. Germany lacks colonies, so she claims, and economic necessities. In western Czechoslovakia are not only three million Germans but deposits of coal and iron. Sitting in Vienna and trying to soothe II Duce with the words "I shall never forget this day." Hitler must be wetting his lips over the proximity of Czechoslovakia. But, superb timer that he is, he will wait, it may be a month, it may be two before he again moves. Meanwhile, Italy will debate on whether...
...lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin River, surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. Thereafter, six days of search produced no trace...